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We describe a dynamic model of financial intermediation in which fundamental characteristics of the economy imply a unique equilibrium path of bank and financial market lending. Yet we also show that economies whose fundamental characteristics have converged may continue to have very different...
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. For the flow of international bond and note issuance it has even slightly overtaken the US dollar in the second half of … 1999. The data also suggest that this early supply of euro bonds by non-euro area residents, clearly exceeding the euro …
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studies global bonds to examine the effects of multimarket trading on corporate bond liquidity, prices, and the cost of debt … advantage of global bonds does not fully explain the yield differential. The findings imply that international corporate bond …Global bonds are international securities designed to be traded and settled efficiently in multiple markets. This paper …
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The paper provides an analysis of the euro area money and bond markets and their infrastructure since the introduction … notably regarding the bond market which lags behind in terms of liquidity, market completeness and overall size compared to … the US corporate bond market. Analysis of the barriers to integration, which do not seem to be specific to these markets …
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prices than their off-the-run counterparts. We examine if the same phenomenon is present in the German government bond market … controlled for. Instead, the highly liquid German bond futures market, whose turnover is many times larger than in the cash … market, leads to significant liquidity spillovers. Specifically, we find that bonds which are deliverable into futures …
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This paper reviews the literature on the finance-growth nexus within a neoclassical growth framework, placing an emphasis on the policy implications in the current European environment, that has placed financial reforms high on the policy Agenda. While more research is needed to establish...
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This paper develops a broad concept of systemic risk, the basic economic concept for the understanding of financial crises. It is claimed that any such concept must integrate systemic events in banking and financial markets as well as in the related payment and settlement systems. At the heart...
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This paper introduces a new indicator of contemporaneous stress in the financial system named Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (CISS). Its specific statistical design is shaped according to standard definitions of systemic risk. The main methodological innovation of the CISS is the...
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This paper introduces a new indicator of contemporaneous stress in the financial system named Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (CISS). Its specific statistical design is shaped according to standard definitions of systemic risk. The main methodological innovation of the CISS is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538811
China is taking a more active role on the world stage, even more so since its rapid and strong recovery from the global recession. In the financial realm this expansion is underpinned by a strategy to build strong and competitive capital markets at home. In order to achieve this goal,...
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